| ### Fifth Tractate ### HAPPINESS AND EXTENSION OF TIME ###  |

| #### Chapter 1 |

| #### #### Is it possible to think that Happiness increases with Time, Happiness which is always taken as a present thing? #### The memory of former felicity may surely be ruled out of count, for Happiness is not a thing of words, but a definite condition which must be actually present like the very fact and act of life. ####  |